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Regarding Bill Mazeroski, he turned 1706 double plays in his career, and was 142 double plays above average using the Bill James formula. This puts him at 1706/(1706 - 142) = 1.09, making him 9% better than the league average and this is extremely good.
As for the issue of these players who have no business at 2B and still turning double plays, is this really an issue when these players are going to end up with like a 0.75 defensive efficiency and miss 100 grounders and end up -70 defensive runs for the season? Please post their defensive runs and defensive efficiency from these results.
So if you want to use an OF at 2B you can do that but you just lost 7 games from poor defense.
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